Improvement in machines for covering strands for gimp



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UNITED STATES PATENT EEIcEo l RICHARD O. ALTON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PA., ASSIGNOR TO F. ODEN HORST MANN, SAMUEL OLAEKSON, AND WILLIAM P. ELLISON, OF SAME PLACE, TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM J. HORSTMANN, DEOEASED.

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINES FOR COVERING STRANDS FOR GIMP.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 146,222, dated January 6, 1874; application filed 1 November 24, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD C. ALToN, of the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented an Improvement in Machines for Covering Strands, of which the following is a specification:

. My invention relates to machinery for manufacturing the silk covered gimp twisted strands which constitute the gimp-bullion used in making tassels, fringes, te. and the object of lmy invention is to manufacture gimp of superior quality, and with less silk than heretofore, by causing the core a of cotton to pass along a groove, b, in a plate, B, to the Hier, while the silk strands el are caused by a guiderod, c, to be forced against and spread over the said plate before they reach the core around which they are Wound, all as shown in the front view, Figure 1, and sectional plan, Fig. .2, of the accompanying drawing.

A represents a portion of the frame of the machine, which, with the exception of the devices mentioned above, is similar to other machines for winding silk around cores vof cotton. To this bar A is secured the guide Al and plate B, the former having an eye, 'through which passes the cotton core a, and which -serves to direct the latter to the groove b inthe plate B, along which'the core passes to the usual flier common to machines of this class. The strands d of silk pass from bobbins around an inclined rod, h secured to the frame A, and thence behind at rod, c, attached to the plate B, and thence, across the portion f of the said plate, to the core, as the latter is twisted by the iiier, and traverses downward through the groove.

On reference to the sectional plan, Fig. 2, it will be observed that the guide-rod e is so situated that the silk strands must be pressed against the plate B in their passage from the said rod to the core in the groove. This pressure necessarily spreads the strands against the plate and presents the strands to the core in a iiattened condition, which insures themore ef- 'fectual covering of the said core than when they are directed to the latter in a close mass in other words, comparatively few strands of silk, when thus spread and flattened, will more effectually cover the'core than a greater number of strands directed to the coreV in the usual manner.

Any tendency of the tension on the silken strands to displace the core will be resisted by the groove in the plate, which maintains the core and the gimp resulting from* the winding of the silk around the core in a straight course. I prefer to secure the guide-rod e, at one end, to the plate B by means of a set-screw, t', so that it can be adjusted to impart more or less tension to the silken strands.

I claim as my invention- The combination, in a machine for covering strands, of the grooved plate B with the guiderod e, for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed myname to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. 4

RICHARD G. ALTON.

Witnesses WM. A. STEEL, HARRY SMITH. 

